Really enjoyed this write-up on how they built Fern Agent. It's a good example of durable agents with DBOS in action: checkpointing model and tool calls in the same Postgres the agent already uses, then picking up where it left off after crashes or deploys. buildwithfern.com/p…
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Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD
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The AI Runtime - Boston · Luma luma.com
Are your agents on ACID? cockroachlabs.com
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If you're in the Boston area, check out The AI Runtime tomorrow evening! Alex from @dbos.dev will be talking about building crashproof AI agents with DBOS, and how durable execution helps agents survive failures, upgrades, and long-running workflows. luma.com/2wxo5ndz
It's interesting to see more AI systems rediscover ideas that databases have been good at for decades: transactions, durability, and correctness. This Thursday at 2pm ET, we'll talk about why those properties matter for AI agents and what we've learned building durable workflo…
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💬 EP 3. Hello, Agent: How do you make AI agents fail-safe? Jeremy Edberg, C-Suite Advisor at @dbos.dev explains how durable execution solves reliability issues, its role in building prod-ready AI agents, & shares insights from his time at Netflix/Reddit on enterprise-scale rel…
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